Sex abuser from Nick Clegg’s old school is found dead

A former teacher at deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s old school, who was facing jail for sex offences against a pupil, has been found dead.

Hugh Henry was killed instantly after apparently throwing himself under a train.

The 82-year-old had been due to be sentenced after admitting abusing a boy at Caldicott School in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire.

He was to have appeared along with former headmaster Peter Wright – also convicted of preying on pupils – whose sentencing hearing is expected to go ahead at Aylesbury crown court.

Henry was hit by a Chiltern Railways train near his home in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday night.

He had been warned he was likely to go to prison for committing gross indecency with Mark Payge. Ex-pupil Mr Payge, formerly Winter – who has died since the case began – said the games teacher abused him for two years, from 1962.

‘He invited me to visit him every morning and have simulated sex with him,’ he said.

A file on Henry’s death has been prepared for the Buckinghamshire coroner. Wright, 83, who still lives near the school, faces jail after he was convicted in December of abusing five boys between 1959 and 1970.